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exploration of the Antarctic Circle

...for some 50 years. From 1839 to 1843, the British rear admiral James Ross, in command of the ships
Erebus and
Terror, explored the coast of Victoria Land. In 1894
Leonard Christensen, captain of a Norwegian whaler, landed a party at Cape Adare, the first to set foot on Antarctica. In the first decade of the 20th century, various explorers, including Britons...